Just wanted to say thanks to all those involved in developing and supporting Mint and especially merlwiz79 for his work on the XFCE edition. I tried it as an experiment on an old PIII-900 laptop with 256MB ram that I'm tolerating until I can get my main PC moved to where i'm living.

Have tried Linux in various forms over the last few years but there has always been something that has kept me using Windows, mainly as my job envolves a lot of work with it. However the 25 minutes it was taking from boot before everything had loaded and I could do anything useful was driving me nuts and a XFCE based Linux distro seemed like it might help things.

Aside from a slightly longer installation time than I was expecting the performance is pretty good and frankly I can't believe that the XFCE compositor works and works well on it given the intel i915 graphics.

The system looks great, perfomance seems better than I got when it was a clean XP installation and while it make take me a bit of messing around to everything i want and need working (vpn+rdp among others), don't think I'll be booting Windows on it much anymore.

F-Secure Anti-virus and Spybot S&D. Openoffice quick launch,Tiscalli software for broadband modem and Google desktop were the only things loaded at startup. Suspect there was something lurking in the registry from previously installed software (possibly Windows Desktop Search) that was causing an issue but have neither the time or the inclination to sort it out!

pingu_dan wrote:F-Secure Anti-virus and Spybot S&D. Openoffice quick launch,Tiscalli software for broadband modem and Google desktop were the only things loaded at startup. Suspect there was something lurking in the registry from previously installed software (possibly Windows Desktop Search) that was causing an issue but have neither the time or the inclination to sort it out!

I heard google installed apps really slow down the system, excluding apps like picasa and google earth. All that Google desktop, google windows explorer toolbar and that other good widget sidebar are a load of rubbish bloatware.

Well I'm glad you have switched, thankyou for your effort into making Linux Mint a good solution for your computer.

Yes, glad you are among us Minties nowI used to service computers as a warranty service //Edit/Lost part of the sentence/ and also upgrade really old ones//and I was never past the five minutes mark, but for the ones that never booted

Spybot has a start up manager, go in there and uncheck everything but your anti virus then install ccleaner and get rid of all the active x crap. Man what am I doing giving ms advice here................sorry.